Under a Raging Moon: Part Three by Chambers V. J

Author:Chambers, V. J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: V. J. Chambers
Published: 2015-03-18T22:38:28+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

We’d been discovered. There were four men at the door. Two of them were in security outfits like we were wearing, and two of them were in regular street clothes. I didn’t recognize any of them.

Hudson cringed at the sight of them, though.

Were these the men who’d hurt him?

I saw red. The wolf inside me had been scrambling to get back out ever since I’d gotten a whiff of the security guards’ blood. Now, it seemed to burst out of me without my bidding.

These men had hurt Hudson. My Hudson. When I looked at him, it hurt my heart to see how badly he’d been beaten, all because of this stupid necklace, and I couldn’t forgive them for that. I wanted them to hurt like he did.

The wolf wanted out.

My rage summoned the wolf, or the wolf rode a wave of my anger—either way, the result was the same.

I shifted, and I lunged at the men.

The security guards weren’t armed except for their flashlights, which they both raised defensively.

But the other men had guns, and they pulled them out, firing on me.

I didn’t care. I ran at the bullets. I was too angry to let that stop me.

The rage rode my body, drove me forward. I dove at them. It was magnificent, just like the way it felt to hunt under the full moon in the woods, taking down deer and squirrels and other things that twitched and ran. It was easy. It was poetry.

I leaped on them, I tore at them. My teeth sunk into their flesh. Their blood sprayed over me, and it tasted like freedom and dominance, and I was alive. This was who I was. This was perfection and beauty.

I couldn’t get enough. I killed the men, ripping out their throats, but that didn’t stop me. I kept clawing at their flesh, eating out their soft, delicious stomachs, gorging myself on them.

They were prey. I was the hunter. It was the way things were supposed to be.

I wouldn’t have stopped if it hadn’t been for Kale, who yanked me back by the scruff of my neck, screaming in my ear that we needed to go.

I fought him, because I didn’t understand. I was too deep inside my wolf, and all the wolf wanted was to eat. I had hunted, now it was time for the reward.

“Shift back,” Kale ordered. “Shift back.”

He twisted my neck in some odd way, some way that made me feel dominated by him, subservient. And so I did. I shifted back.

And then I stood naked and blood-streaked over the annihilation I’d created.

I put my fingers to my mouth, horrified.

My hands were bloody. So were my lips. I could taste the blood.

I bent over and vomited. I don’t know what came out of my stomach, but I think it was…

Oh God.

Kale took me by the shoulders. “We have to go, Piper. Do you understand me? We have to get out of here.”

I nodded, feeling numb. Of course we had to do something about Hudson.

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